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I think there's some important context here for people reading this from overseas, geologically Australia is extremely stable as its far from any tectonic plate borders and there's very few large earthquakes here. This quake is one of the largest to happen here. Many people here have never experienced the sort of whole building shaking type of experience we just had.

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According to Wikipedia's list[1], it's the strongest earthquake Australia has had since 1997, and that one was in a remote part of Western Australia.

"A Seismologist tells @abcmelbourne it’s the biggest earthquake Victoria has experienced since European settlement" [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Austral... 2. https://twitter.com/bridgerollo/status/1440467927140999174

Well, that's new knowledge for me. Especially knowing that in its northern neighbor, Indonesia, there is an earthquake somewhere in its region.

Have a look at some maps of plate tectonics. The huge Australian plate collides with the Sunda plate along a boundary which is much closer to Indonesian landmasses compared to the Australian ones.

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